Little Known Tales from The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program

Five Guys Had The Balls To Stand At Ground Zero

by Thor Jensen

If you really want to show off your swag, why not stand right underneath an exploding nuclear bomb? Amazing recently-declassified footage shows five Army officers standing at a Nevada test site during the Plumbbob test series. As they wait, a pair of F-29s tear through the sky overhead. One launches an AIR-2 Genie rocket with a 1.5 kiloton warhead attached, and it explodes in the sky directly above their head. Amazingly enough, all five men were there as volunteers – except for the poor cameraman. He was under orders. Even more amazingly, the cameraman outlived the rest of them.